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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas is the author of many books on animals and nature, including The Tribe of Tiger: Cats and Their Culture and The Hidden Life of Dogs. Her most recent book is Growing Old: Notes on Aging With Something Like Grace.

The Lions and the San

The Lions and the San

How could a people survive for thousands of years with so many predators in their midst?

by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas | Wednesday, June 01, 2022
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Thought Experiment

Exploring the evolutionary origins of our brains

by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas | Monday, December 07, 2020

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The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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